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Good Beer Week: Woods of the North at 3 Ravens Brewery

Beer. Lots of beer. Lots of really good barrel aged beer. And spirits. Delicious barrel aged spirits. These are some of the words that come to mind when describing Woods of the North. Another word that comes to mind is…

Good Beer Week: Mt. View Hotel Meet the Beer Series

Mt. View Hotel‘s rooftop bar has some of the best city views in Melbourne, a jaunty carnival-like atmosphere with its food truck-esque bar and fairy lights, and this week, they have jumped on the Good Beer Week wagon for the…

Underground Cinema

Underground Cinema: FBI

When it comes to dressing like an FBI recruit, my wardrobe was more Cadet Kelly, less G.I. Jane. So yes, there was a chance I was the most stylish Quantico student that turned up to Underground Cinema‘s latest venture, FBI….

Talk & Taste at Pilgrim Bar

Pilgrim Bar’s Talk & Taste series has all the ingredients of a perfect night. A cosy room in a bar on the banks of the Yarra. Getting up close and personal with a local winemaker. Perfectly matched canapes. And the perfect…

Inaugural Annual Dance Affair

I’ve always wanted to be able to dance. After a few too many wines and in the dark depths of a dingy dive bar, I’m happy to give it a shot, but there’s something quite magical about being in the…

Freddie Wimpoles opens in St. Kilda

Enter the man cave. Freddie Wimpoles is bringing my small town America bar dreams to life. Bigger and better than I could have imagined. Smokey drinks populate the cocktail menu and the bar features 14 taps. Feeling a bit peckish?…

A night of splashing and movie-going with Hot Tub Cinema

Hot tub. Cinema. Both are already spectacular past times singularly, but when put together they become something truly other worldly. This other world launched at The Common Man on Dukes Walk in South Wharf, fittingly set alongside the river. From the very…

les mills the trip

Immersive fitness: The exercise movement of the future?

‘Some riders may experience altered spacial awareness’. This warning might be enough to make some people reconsider participating in this particular exercise class. Not me. I was intrigued. The last time I took a class which involved spinning madly on a…

VCA dance presents ‘Crush’

Is modern dance made for laughs? Can you laugh out loud during a dance show on the choreographer’s invitation? To this, and other questions, Stephanie Lake and third year dance students at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the…